Overview

• The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office granted each company a contract with a ceiling of $200 million, bringing total potential awards to $800 million.
• The agreements charge the firms with creating agentic AI workflows capable of analyzing classified data and issuing actionable recommendations.
• xAI rolled out Grok for Government on the GSA schedule, making its frontier AI models purchasable by all federal agencies.
• Google’s Distributed Cloud achieved IL-6 accreditation in June, clearing the way for sensitive defense workloads to run on its platform.
• These awards build on June’s OpenAI prototype contract and support the DoD’s FY 2026 budget request for multibillion-dollar AI and autonomy investments.